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Police have located the owner of the bull that raged through downtown Cedar City Monday, injuring two women, demolishing fences and heading toward a college campus before finally being rammed by an officer's SUV and shot to death.
But Cedar City police Sgt. Jimmy Roden declined to identify the owner of the hornless 1,000-to-1,400-pound, black-with-white-spots bull, noting officers were still investigating exactly how the animal got loose.
Roden said police and animal control officers tried repeatedly to corral and capture the bull, but after it knocked over the two women, causing minor injuries — and broke down several fences and charged officers as it headed toward the crowded Southern Utah University and South Elementary School campuses — they ran out of options.
"While we had animal control [officers] on the scene, they are not equipped with the tools to tranquilize an animal of that size," Roden explained.
Fearing more people could be hurt, one desperate officer rammed the bull with his SUV, stunning the animal long enough for another officer to shoot it.
First reports of the berserker bovine first came in to 911 dispatchers at 7 a.m. Monday when the bull was spotted near 400 South and 700 West.
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